THE CONYERS WEEKLY v
VOL. XL
There has not been one single improve
ment in Russian railroads in the last
twenty five years, and none are expected
for fifty years to come.
T he woman’s rights movement in the
United States is forty years old. This
much was frankly admitted at the clos¬
meeting in Washington by Mrs.
ing Stanton, who with
Elizabeth Cady was
it at first as she is now.
In an interview between Henry M.
Stanley and a newspaper correspondent,
the distinguished explorer said: “I
have been in Africa seventeen years, and
I have never met a man who would kill
me if I folded my hands.”
A recent traveler through the Chinese
province of Manchuala says that besides
having a reverence for animals the rustic
Manchus worship diseases, and particu¬
larly the small-pox, which is represented
under the form of a repulsive idol.
The Pope’s income from Peter’s pence,
i 18T0 has been the only
which since
source of revenue left to the Papacy,
amounts to $1,200,000 a year, On the
occasion of his recent jubilee the Peter’s
Pence presented to Pope Leo aggregated
$ 7 , 000 , 000 .
_
The terrible Chatsworth (Ill.) disaster
has already cost the Toledo, Peoria and
Western Railroad more than three hun¬
dred thousand dollars in damages, and
there is another one hundred thousand
dollars yet to pay. A new culvert, by
which the accident would have been
|avoided, would have cost four hundred
; dollars.
_
[ California is proud of her record for
1887. Three hundred miles of new rail¬
road were laid, the assessed value of
property increased $132,000,000, the
wine and brandy product was large, 50,
000,000 pounds of canned goods and
35,000,000 of green fruits were shipped,
land there never was such a year for
tourists.
Although Robert Bonner, the aged
proprietor of the New' York Ledger , has
pwued the fastest horses in the country
and is ever on the alert for new acquisi¬
tions, it is said that he rarely goes to
witness a horse-Tace and never bets on
Dne. He never drives a horse on Sun
lay and never permits one of his horses
to be driven on that day.
When the United States Senate is do¬
ing business under what is known ns the
five-minute rule President Ingalls limits
the time of the speakers not by his watch
but by an ancient sand-glass which has
been in use by the Senate for many
tears. As soon as a Senator begins his
speech the glass is set and as soon as the
pud [hat has all run out, in just five minutes
is, down comes the President’s
gavel.
When things go wrong in China’s
igricultural districts the farmers resort
[o prayers. The Chinese paper Shill Pao
recent date says: “On account of
jhere having the been no rain or snow for so
png, farmers of this district are feel
pg anxious; therefore it has been de¬
fied to pray for snow, for which pur
pose all the civil and military official of
[he F e to city, repair from the Kuan-ti highest to the lowest,
to Temple in Tient
F n early every morning, and continue
peir ihe devotion afternoon. and prayer until three
P This they are to do
“i three days beginning with to-day,
cd during this time they are also to ob
:rve strict fasting, nor will they allow
10 P u Mic slaughtering of any cattle. II
ceitain that, such sincerity aud devo
°u on the part of the ruling class will
l0ve heart of heaven and fulfil the
Lactations of the people.”
Spain has annexed the Sahara coas
E^ween °nt 130 Capes miles Blanco of the interior, and Bojador anc
thus in
°(lucing a wedge between the French
Senegal and the western frontier ol
°‘ 0c ’O. besides gaining important
an
position upon the projected rad
ay from Algeria to Senegah The new
Panisk territory covers some 75,000
Uare ®'les. Italy has begun an active
m P^ign for the es:ablLhment of its
Mion in Africa, aud Abyssinia is ap
P nJ y Prepared for a determined
liancc. re
Several skirmishes between
r outposts and natives have already
purred. That the campaign will enA
L L? p! SUcce al, ' l0u ' Cj gb °f Paly the there difficulties can be little
’ which
a.tend the undertaking are not to
es Pisod, as is shown by the British
M:tion against King Theodore. The
‘-row of that monarch involved an
*i°nary force of 16,000 men, which
. necessities
of transport and supply
a 10 double that number, and
, ,
a ians must advance by dif
a more
-to-ate than the British aud face a
ated instead of a divided people.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1888.
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED
FOR BUSY HUMANITY.
MOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLES—FIRES,
ACCIDENTS—INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
Alabama.
Of 83 saloon keepers in Birmingham
only 30 have paid the state paid and county license
license lor 1888. and one no
for 1887. A deputy sheriff started out
Saturday and arrested a out 20 of those
who have not paid. They were released
on bonds of $4,000 each.
On Thursday night an attempt was
m ule to burn the Lane grammar school
building in Birmingham. A quantity of
shavm<>s and kindling wood was placed
under the building, saturated with oil
and set on fire. The fire department ar¬
rived in t.me to save the building from
serious damage.
Delaware.
By an accidental explosion of dyna
mite, Thomas A. Martin and Kendall
Palmer, workmen engaged in destroying which
in old railroad pier, at Lewes, blizzard, was
wrecked during the sevtre were
blown to atoms.
Florida.
Polk county watermelons are in mar¬
ket.
R. C. Breland, of DeLand, has cut
three hundred bushels of oats from three
acres ol land.
One hundred dollars a foot was offered
for ground recently, on the square, at Ocala, by a
new-comer but was not accept
ed.
Wm. J. Munroe, of Sumter, planted
five acres in which cabbage last added season, from the
proceeds of he $789 to his
bank account.
Work has been commenced on the new
furniture factory in East Gainesville, and
the completion of the City and Suburban
Railway to Newnan’s Lake is now an
assured fact.
Frank P. Fleming, of Jacksonville,
was nominated for governor by the Dem¬
ocratic convention on (he fortieth ballot,
after a tedious contest of two clays, and
the nomination was made unanimous amid
great enthusiasm.
The French Government has consented
to defray the expense of carrying the
members of a family named Commeau,
now living at Jacksonville, back to
France. The laws of France, by special
enactment, provide a fund to be applied
to the repatriation of such subjects as
may be desirous of returning to their
domestic firesides in “la belle France.”
Some years ago a state memorial asso¬
ciation was formed for the purpose of
raising funds to erect a suitable monu-^
ment in the capitol grounds at Tallahas¬
see to the memory "who of those good and
brave Floridians lost their lives in
the Confederate States Army, The
monument had been selected and order¬
ed, and it is now the intention of the
committee to have the monument erect¬
ed and ready to be unveiied at the
assembling of the Legislature in April,
1889. The monument will be thirty-five
feet high and cost about $10,000.
Geoi-si a.
A Democratic mass meeting held in
Atlanta was easily captured by the Pro¬
hibitionists, who proved they were well
organized and officered.
For about a year, the people of Thom¬
son have been annoyed at the operations
of a bold and successful series of bur¬
glaries, most of them perpetrated m the
rooms of young ladies. Recently, Airs.
Willie Burnside, of' Augusta, who is
visiting her mother, Airs. Basford, found
Allen Sturgis, a young negro, under her
bed, and he was arrested, and he impli¬
cated four others who were arrested and
bailed out. Sturgis was left in jail, night as
he could not get bail, and Saturday
he was lynched, being hung on an oak
tree near the colored Baptist church.
Eolith Carolina.
Henry Fuller, a young white man, of
Columbia, accidently killed himself with
his shot gun while engaged in conversa¬ with
tion with a lady. He held the gun
the muzzle under his arm, when, from
some unknown cause it was discharged,
killing him instantly.
Henry Fuller, a young white boy, Irv¬
ine in Pickens couty, S. C., was shot and
instantly killed on Wednesday. Fuller
had been squirrel hunting, and after re¬
turning home was in the yard leaning
upon his gun, which was accidently dis¬
charged, The whole charge going through
his heart and tearing a frightful hole in
his body.
Mrs. Lewis L. Wingo was killed by
lightning in Spartanburg on Thursday.
Her husband and children were at work
in the field, and on the coming of the
storm they took refuge iu a stable and
escaped unhurt. Shortly after the
shower they went to the dwelling house,
and there found the dead body of Airs.
Wingo gh the floor of one of the rooms.
The house was not damaged, and two
children in the room when the stroke
came, escaped altogether unharmed.
Some weeks ago Annette, the daughter
of W. Al. Alaness, a well-to-do white
farmer of Darlington county, was strick¬
en with dysentery, but the disease soon
yielded to the treatment of a regular
physician. In the meantime, a corps of
the Salvation Armv came along, and
with it Aliss Mattie Gordon, a faith cure
poysmian. Miss Gordon appeared at the
gprl s bedside, and soon induced her
leave off the doctor's medicine, and adopt
the faith remedy. As a consequence, the
disease look a firmer hold, and with
nothing to check it, raged with more
violence than ever and the patient died,
Louisiana.
The Legislative caucus, at Baton
Rouge, elected Judge E. D. White, Uni¬
ted States Senator for the term begin¬
ning March 4, 1891.
The small steamboat, Fulton, exploded Ed
on Thursday at Paso a Houtre,
ward Perkins, pilot, was instantly killed
and Capf. W. P. Baddle fatally wounded.
There were seven men on the boat. Two
colored deck hands were badly hurt.
At Milnburg, a resort on Lake Ponch
artrain, within a few miles of New Or¬
leans, on Wednesday, injured, one man is feared was
killed and ten others it
mortally, by a lightning stroke. About
5 o’clock in the evening a sudden storm
came up from the lake, and a large num
ber of people sought refuge in a tent in
one of the gardens. The storm lasted
but a few moments, but during its height
the tent was struck with the above re¬
sult.
Missouri.
Jay Gould is seriously ill in his private
car at Kansas City. He will go at once
to New York.
While the Mississippi river boat, In¬
verness owned by McDowell Bros., of
LaCrosse, Wis., was towing a raft to
Hannibal, Mo., two lower flues collapsed
and ten men were blown overboard or
jumped in the water to escape the deluge
of steam. Five were drowned, all boat
hands.
North Carolina.
A young white man named Edward
York, a nephew of Dr. York, of Wilkes
county, who was the last Republican
candidate for governor, was stabbed on
Saturday night by another young white
man by the name of Reese, at
Holly Grove, The young men were
traveling through the country.
York was recently married, and the oc¬
currence grew out of an old feud be¬
tween him and Reese in regard love to York’s with
bride. Both men had been in
the woman Y r ovk married. She rejected
Reese, who said before he left that he
had sworn to kill York.
Mr. Greene, a defeated candidate for
the nomination for lieutenant governor
on the Republican ticket, has caused a
sensation by the public announcement
that J. C. Pritchard, who was nominated
for the place he wanted, is a murderer.
Greene charges Pritchard with the kill¬
ing of an old man by the name of Snyder
and his son, in the mountains. Bills of
indictment were entered in the state
court. Pritchard took refuge under the
law allowing an appeal to the federal
court, where the charges preferred
against him were not investigated, and
he went free. Pritchard is a brother-in
law of Ed. W. Ray, who was tried as
one of the Mica mine murderers of
Mitchell county, and who afterwards
made his escape from Asheville jail.
Virginia.
Judge N. B. Meade, of the corpo
ration^court of Alexandria, died of at disease Mar¬
shall, Farquier from county, which he had
of the heart,
been suffering for some time, lie was on
his way to his country home.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE.
Gc-n. Clinton B. Fisk was nominated
for President by acclamation by the pro¬
hibit ioni-ts, at Indianapolis, Ind. llev.
Sam Small was one of the candidates
named for vice-president, but he refused
to allow his name to be considered. The
national committee was announced.
Southern members are as follows: Ala¬
bama- L. C. Colson, T. F. Whitton,
Arkansas—T. J. Rogers, J. L. Palmer,
Florida—I. J. Alorgan, S. H. Cummings,
Georgia—Sam Small, A. A. Alurphy,
Mississippi—J. R. Gambrel!, Noith Caro¬
lina—D. W. C. Benton, Henry Shaffers,
South Carolina—James A. Tate, W. S.
Smith, Virginia—J. W. Newton, R. II.
Rollens. John A. Brooks, of Kansas,
was nominated for vice-president, die. and
the convention adjourned sine
BIG STEAL.
The investigation of the affairs of the
defunct Alaritime bank, in court at St.
John’s, Neb., has developed some start¬
ling facts. The evidence adduced justi¬
fies the suspicion that Air. AIcClellan, the
manager, kept two sets of books in order
to conceal the true condition of the
bank’s affairs from the directors. One
of the liquidator’s clerks swore that the
deficiency of the bank, after deducing
the value of its assets, was over $1,300,
000 .
RECKLESSNESS.
A collision occurred on the Cheyenne
and Northern branch of the Union Pacific
Railroad, near Bordeaux, Wyo., on
Thursday, between a work train and a
passenger engine, which resulted in the
death of a passenger, Conductor Haden,
Fireman Elm and Brakeman Alayfield,
and the probable fatal injury of engineers
Brooks and Alarsden, and serious injury
of four other employes.
ROUTE CHANGED.
As a result of the negotiations between
the French government and the Eastern
Railway Company for a change of the
route of trains, in order that eastward
bound passengers might not be obliged
to pass through Alsace-Lorraine, the
railroad company announces train service
to Switzerland, Austria and Italy, via
Dole, thus avoiding German territory.
A ranchman at Dayton, Nev., found
one of his cows choking on a potato. He
thlusthis arm int oher mouth and but' pushed
^ ^ down hel . throat> when
|, e ^-ied to withdraw’ his arm she set her
j n ^ ail( j fc e pt them there until her
: ^ awswere pried apart with a crowbar,
arm was KO b adly crushed that it
^. ag f oum j necessarv to amputate it.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
SOW CONGRESS IS SPENDING
ITS TIME AND ENERGY.
OFFICIAL ACTS OF THE PRESIDENT—AP¬
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS—-WHERE
THE NATION’S MONEY GOES—GOSSIP.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on Thursday, Mr.
Faulkner offered a resolution (which
was agreed to), directing the Secretary
of War to furnish information as to why he
has not used the appropriations of $15,
000 and $3,000, made in 1880 and 1881,
for the improvement of Shenandoah
river in Viiginia and West Virginia. bill
The conference report on tlie
to establish a department of labor was
presented and agreed to. A number of
bills from the calendar were passed,
amontr them the House bill authorizing
the construction of bridges over the Ten¬
nessee river at Guntersville, Ala., and
Chattanooga, Tenn. Conference com¬
mittees on these , bridge bills were or¬
dered, and Messrs. Coke, Cullum and
Dawes were appointed. Mr. Call offered
a resolution, (which went over), direct
ing the attorney-general island, to St. repoii Au
whether Anastasia near
gustine, Fla., is the property of th*
United States, or whether it is coverec
in -whole or in part by th<
Spanish grants confirmed and rec¬
ognized as valid by the United States.. v
In the House Mr. O’Neil, of Missouri,
presented the conference report on hi:
bill to create a department of labor
which was accepted, and the bill passec
in substantially the same shape as i
came from the Senate. Committee
were called for reports, and then on mo
tion of Mr. Mills, and without a negative
voice the House went into committee o
the whole for the consideration of th
tariff bill, and was debated for som
time. Messrs. McKinley, of Ohio, ant
Spinola, of New York, who held th:
report from the military committee
sought to secure consideration for the
bill to revive the rank of general of the
army, to be filled by Lieutenant General
Sheridan, but objection was made by Mr.
Kilgore, of Texas, and the House ad¬
journed, pending a division on a motion
to table Mr. Peters’s appeal from the
ruling of the chair on his point.
GOSSIP.
The Pr> si lent returned to the House
without his approval, the bill building providing
for the erection of a public at
Columbus, Ga.
The v cry latest report from the bedside
of Gen. Sheridan is unfavorable, and a
decided change from his condition in the
latter part of last week, when lie rallied
under the inspiration of the news that
Congress had raised his rank to that of
full general, equal to the honor conferred
on Gen. Grant.
In the case of the Woodstock Iron
company, located near Anniston, Ala.,
the Secretary of the Interior, on Thurs¬
day, decided that the purchase of unoff¬
ered lands by said company under pro¬
visions of section 1 of the act of June 15,
1880, was illegal, and directed the can
cellation of all impatented entries to said
company.
Senator Sherman, from the Committee
Finance, on Wednesday reported fa¬
vorably, with amendments, the hill to
reimburse the depositors of the Freed
men’s Savings and Trust Company for
losses incurred by the failure of that
company. The bill to* appropriates $1,000,
000 to be placed the credit of the
commissioner of the company.
Mr. Clements, of Ga., introduced a
bill on Monday to pay the deacons of
New Hope Baptist church, in Bartow
county, $650 for the use of the church
building bv the Union forces in ’64.
Also a bill to pay Nathan Bright $4,823
for property taken from him by the army
of the United States. Also a similar
bill to pay Frank Henderson $1,608.
Pensions have been granted as follows
to people of Florida: Original invalid,
Samuel Puleston, Monticello; original
widows, etc., Mary J., widow of John
W. Brannon, Jacksonville; Mexican
widows, Olive, widow of Neill Monroe,
Fort Meade; increase (old war), Nathan¬
iel F. Chapman, Bartow; Mexican sur¬
vivors, Alfred Iverson, Kissimee; Afexi
can widows, Martha C., widow of Pres¬
ton S. Brooks, Jacksonville.
The Secretary of the Navy issued an
order for a court martial to convene at
the Navy Department for the trial of
Capt. Thos. O. Selfridge, United States
Navy. Selfridge is charged with neglect
of duty on three specifications. The first
is for not having applied for and ob¬
tained permission from the Japanese au
thorities to conduct target practice is for on
Japanese territory. The seeond
not having taken proper steps toasceitain
if the practice could be conducted u ith
safety, and the third is for having left
unexploded shells on an island. It will
be remembered that several natives were
killed while examining an unexploded
shell which had been left on an island.
Pbe rdinaml s Pliancy Pliloored.
“phairest Phlora,” wrote an aworou9
youth who is smitten with the phonetic
craze, “phorever dismiss your phears,
and phly with one whose phervent
tihancy Phriends—phamily—phather is phixed on you alone.
of the phelicity — phorget
them, and think only of
the phuture. Phew pliellows Pherdinand; are so
pheign phastidious phondness as your if pheel it not. so
not you
Fhorego phrolic and answer phiually,
Phlora.”
“Oh, Pherdinand, you pbool!” was
phair Phlora’s curt reply.— Qalveeton
News.
AROUND ME GLOBE.
ITEMS GLEANED FROM TELE¬
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
INTEREST!?; G DOTS ABOUT THE NORTH,
EAST AND WEST—THE EUROPEAN SITU¬
ATION—DOINGS OF KINGS AND QUEENS.
Leprosy is spreading at a dreadful rate
in Russia. Thirty cases have been offi¬
cially reported in Darpart alone.
The German police now refuse to allow’
the people to throw flowers aud petitions when
into Emperor Frederick’s carriage
he is driving.
The St. Paul knitting works, at St. Paul
Park, Wis., burned on Thursday with
most of the contents, Loss, $117,000;
insurance, $77,000.
The trouble between Emperor Fred¬
erick and Bismarck, iu regard to reforms,
appeared to affect the health of the em¬
peror unfavorably.
The Blandon Iron Company, near
Reading, Pa., which operates an exten¬
sive rolling mill, lias closed indefinitely
on account of the low price of iron.
Irish Catholic archbishops and bishops
have issued an address declaring that the
Pope’s decree relative to Irish affairs af¬
fects morals only and does not interfere
with politics.
A fire which broke out in the Hotel
Roma, Panama, at two o’clock Sunday
morning, entirely gutted ten large build¬
ings. It is estimated that $900,000
worth of property was destroyed.
One hundred farmers, encouraged by
the papal rescript, have bought turf from
Landlord Hussey’s bog at Ahabeg, in
County Kerry, Ireland. Hussey had been
rigidly boycotted for four years.
The English gun boat Mistletoe visited
the Minquiers group of the Channel Is¬
lands and warned the French to quit
Maitre He, upon which the tri-color
was recently raised. It is claimed by the
English.
There has been a falling off in the
price of seats of the cotton exchange,
at New York. Some years ago seats were
worth $0,000. The sale of three seats
under the rule recently realized $970,
$900 and $955.
The vigorous enforcement of the Ger
man frouTier regulations commenced on
Saturday at Strasburg. A number ol
travelers with irregular trains papers from Paris were
turned back, and direct
were almost empty.
The bark Monrovia sailed for Liberia
on Sunday from 'New York, carrying
thirteen colored families from Gainesville,
Florida, who are to settle there. They
are emigrating under the auspices of the
African Colonization society.
Iu the Methodist Conference in New
Y r ork on Wednesday, the six new Bishops
were consecrated with impressive Freedman’s cere¬
monies. The name of the
Aid Society was changed after much op¬
position to tilt; Freedman’s Aid and
Southern Educational Society.
Bismarck had a long interview on
Thursday with Emperor Frederick, re¬
maining uut 1 5. p. m. Afterwards the
emperor and empress drove in an open
carriage to Cunnewald. They returned
at 6 p. m., when the emperor paid liia
first visit to the mausoleum since the fun¬
eral of the late Emperor William.
The Missouri river lias begun its rava¬
ges again, and since Thursday morning
has cut one hundred and fifty feet into
the shore on the Nebraska side, directly
opposite Sioux, City, Iowa. Several years
ago site a good share of the original town
was engulfed, and last Summer a
large tract on the Iowa side was swal¬
lowed up.
A suit has beenstartedinNew York, to
restrain the controlling stockholders in a
baking powder company from being too
magnanimous with themselves iu the
matter of salaries—the president vice-president gets
$50,000 a year and the
$30,000—develops the fact that baking
powdermakes the profit rise. The divi¬
dends of this company have regularly in¬
creased from 73 per cent at first to a
ratio of 450 per cent for this year.
Preparations are being made in Russia,
under the authority of the czar, for the
celeb: ation next July of the ninth cen¬
tennial of the Greek Church iu his em¬
pire. The scene of the grandest in the pomp
and chief ceremonies will be an¬
cient city of Kieff, the capital of Chris¬
tianized Russia, and in the magnificent which
old cathedral of St. Sophia, near
stand the palace of the Greek Metropoli¬
tan and the Petcherskoi monastery.
A monster meeting was held in the
city park at Cork, on Sunday, to take
action with reference to the papal re¬
script. The meeting endorsed the reso¬
lutions adopted by the Irish bishops, at
their recent meeting in Dublin. William
O’Brien, member of Parliament, in a
speech, said that the people had the sup¬
port of the bishops. The leaders of the
Irish movement, he said, wished to drop
the rescript agitation, but they would
continue it if necessary.
“Papa is Melting His Snow.”
Brown was engaged the in lapse dyeing of blt^ik
his hair, whitened by many
winters.
His youngest olive branch had stolen
into the room unobserved.
“Oh, see!” she exclaimed, as she
watched her father rubbing away like a
good fellow; “papa is melting his snow.”
—Judge,
A St, Louis minister -says that the greatest
feat of baptism in the history of the Baptist
Church in modern times was that missionary, performed
in July, 1878, by J. C. Clough, a
who with the assistanceof five native preach¬
ers, immersed 3332 converted brethren with
in six hours.
NO. 15.
DAFFODILS.
“I stand, as once I stood of old,
Upon a meadow’s green and gold.
This sunny April day;
The little daisies kiss my feet,
The blackbird’s call is clear and sweet,
And care is far away.
“A solemn peace lies on my heart,
So lately wont to throb and smart
And chafe at human ills;
I lift my face to feel the breeze,
That wanders through the budding trees,
And shakes the daffodils.
“How sweet they show to weary eye*
Those hardy yellow blooms that rise
On slender fluted stalks!
They need no culture, thought or care,
But spring with springtime, free and fair.
O’er all our common walks.
“On meadow green, by leafy hedge,
In woodland shado and rusty sedge,
By little lowly rills;
While yet the north wind blows his blast,
Before the storm and sleet are past,
Laugh out the daffodills.
“They rise this year from last year’s grave.
And all their golden tassels wave
As blithely now as then.
So I, who love their beauty so,
Rise up this year from last year’s woe,
And gather flowers again.
“What though from many a dream I part,
I feel the springtime in my heart,
My tired sorrows cease.
I whisper to the yellow flowers,
This year shall bring me summer hours,
And deeper, surer peace.’
“What though the feet that walked with
mine
Through last year's days of shade and shine
Among my native hills,
Have wandered from my side and I
Stand lonelj' undor God’s blue sky,
Among the daffodils.
“What though the hand which held my own
In love’s own clasp, while love’s own tone
Grew tender unto pain,
Has left my poor hand thin and cold;
I bring the trusting heart of old
To these bright flowers again.”
—All the Year Round.
PITH AND POINT. .
Iland-sewed— An oat field.
Au epitaph for a faithful car conductor
— “He took his last fare-well.”
All’s fair in love—especially the ob¬
ject of one’s love .—Burlington Free
Press.
Three scruples make a dram, but many
men take the dram first and let the
scruples come iu at the second table.
Fred had the “boss” girl, ho oft did boast
When courting Nellie Moss:
Three years in still holy wedlock joined,
He linds she is boss.
— 1 'ankee Blade.
Johnnie— “ATamma, why do they call
ministers doctors?” Mother: “I can’t
tell, Johnnie.” Johnnie—“Perhaps church, it’s
because they arc the pillars of the
mamma. — Yonhrs Statesman.
“ Will you be kind enough, pa,” said
Bobby, iu a low, well-modulated tone of
voice, “to give me another piece of pie ?”
“No, sir,’’replied the oldman: “you’ve
had enough.” “Ala,” said Bobby, with
a dubious air, “you told me that polite¬
ness always pays .”—New York Bun.
Jnthe spring the gentle urchin plays with
marbles on the walk
In the spring the politician oils his mouth
for future talk.
In the spring the latest fashions on the dude
lets do appear.
In the spring the long-haired post works his
muse to get z win bier.
—Minneapolis Tribune.
A writer in a Louisville paper says ho
is surprised to observe, in reading the
wedding notices in the city papers, what
a large proportion of the brides are work¬
ing girls. He would probably be more
surprised still, however, if the papers
said they were working men.— Judge.
Alathematical (a fact).—Visitor—
“Well, my little man, have you any
brothers?” Freddy—“Yes, I have one,
but my little sister Stella has two.”
Visitor—“Why, how can that be?"
Freddy (in some astonishment)—“Me
and my little brother,of course!”— drip.
Over-Trumped.—Two drummers were
disputing as to which of their firms had
the more extensive business. “Our
travelers,” said one, “haveso muchto do
that they are away for nearly the whole
year.” “Nonsense,” answered the other.
“That is nothing. Ours sometimes
never come back at all .—FLiegende Blaet
ter.
The Oldest Mason in the World.
Colonel Edward Sumner, of San Fran¬
cisco, has been visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Ada E. Taylor, on Locust street.
Colonel Taylor is the oldest Free Alason
known to be living in the world. He has
been a Alason for seventy-one years. He
was born in 1790. A remarkable fact is
that he can read without the aid of
glasses. In the war of 1812 he was a
member of a transportation engaged company in m
New York which was trans¬
porting munitions and troops, He came
to California in 1850, but returned to
Wisconsin a few years after, He served
in the Wisconsin Legislature during
1859-00. In 1803 he once more came to
California, where he has since remained.
Colonel t'umner is a descendant of the
Sumners who came to America in the
Alayflowcr .—Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Prefers the Summer.
There’s fun in courting
■Midst the winter’s sporting, the crusted snow
When the sleigh s flying over jinglmg
And the bells are
And the ears are tingling below.
And the mercury’s at zero or one
But I think I'd rather
Wait for warmer weather
And sit in the woods on a grassy knoll,
Where the flowers are springing
And the birds are parasol. singing,
And court her under her
—Boston Conner.
